Notes from the Resistance...
Funny thing about Knob Creek. Ordinary Americans have access to all kinds of firepower and yet 15,000 of them manage to get along just fine.Today's Gun Rights Examiner column covers a lot of ground, from a range in Kentucky to:
Maybe, just maybe it's not the guns...? [More]
The Enemy, unprovided with Horses and Carriages or any means of moving by land, cannot go off the Island and penetrate the Country, and I should imagine that it would not require any great number, properly Stationed, to prevent their ravaging the Coast. [More]Wrap your mind around that. Washington regarded those who insisted--with force--that they were his lawful government--and fellow countrymen who sided with them--as "The Enemy."
It's huge because the Second Amendment has not been held to be incorporated --and thus binding-- on the states. [More]This one warranted a second Gun Rights Examiner column.
A former member of our unit (but now a cop) told me homeland security is telling all law enforcement to find excuses to search the vehicles of anyone they suspect of being militia and to seize their firearms for any charge they can make up even when they know the firearms will have to be returned or on the pretext of checking the serial numbers so while they have them the BATF can ballisticly test (and put the ballistic forensics into a data base) of all the firearms they can take. He said on the AR-15s the BATF is also checking for M16 parts and testing to see if they will malfunction and double. [More]No idea if this is valid, but the way it "feels" to me, I thought it best to air vs. sit on. I call it to your attention as a precaution and recommend treating it with appropriate questioning while not dismissing it outright.
In exchange for Harman’s help, the sources said, the suspected Israeli agent pledged to help lobby Nancy Pelosi , D-Calif., then-House minority leader, to appoint Harman chair of the Intelligence Committee after the 2006 elections, which the Democrats were heavily favored to win. [More]This is wrong on so many levels--and not just with foreign powers and democrats, but with their republican cronies as well.
West said a customer of his recently stocked up on .223-caliber rounds, a caliber often used in assault-style weapons. The customer bought 1,000 rounds a few months ago through a mail order company.Thank God.
Shortly after the purchase, he received a visit from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, whose interest was apparently piqued by a large-scale purchase of that caliber. [More]
Mexican and U.S. authorities disagree on just what type of gun it was. Federal police coordinator Gen. Rodolfo Cruz maintains it was .50-caliber anti-air craft machine gun. ATF, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said it was an unmodified .50-caliber semiautomatic rifle made by TNW, a U.S. firearms manufacturer. [More]Whose Paranoid brings us a conflicted report.
THIS is not a .50 anti aircraft machine gun. It is a 1917-1918A series 30 Cal thousands of which have been given to Latin American Countries over the years and which has not been in the US inventory for almost 50 years.Perhaps someone can help clarify all these seeming disconnects...?
The "Jan" listed as a gun-owning father in this story is Jan Nickels - an old friend from grade/high school, who still currently lives only about 5 miles from me. He is an ex-Marine and is well-schooled in firearms and firearm safety. We are fellow members of the same local shooting club.
I called Jan as soon as I read the story. As it turns out, ABC News tricked Jan and others to participate in what was obviously always been intended to be an anti-gun attack. In fact, this story starts with a false premise and goes quickly downhill. At this point I will let Jan tell the rest of his story... [More]
"I challenge the president of the United States and the media to prove that 90 percent of the guns used by the drug cartels are being smuggled," Mr. LaPierre said...Of course he didn't. That's because Mr. Rendell is a tyrannical fraud.
Mr. Rendell did not address the statistic. [More]
Obama blames U.S. guns in Mexico [More]Of course he does.
The public are fast losing patience with thuggish policing... [More]Why? They're the ones with the force monopoly. Isn't that what you lot wanted?
Curry also found out firsthand what federal drug enforcement agents have long understood. The drug war, with the savagery it brings, knows no bounds. It had landed in his back yard, in the foothills of the Appalachians, in Alabama's wealthiest county, around the corner from The Home Depot.Government usurpation, corruption and negligence have led us to this. And the solution is to give them more power to disarm us?
One thousand, twenty-four miles from the Mexico border. [More]
We can do so much better than crossing our fingers and wishing. But right now, that's really the only preemptive measure in place. Everything else is just a response. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column questions why the best preemptive solution the gun grabbers have against school shootings involves keeping your fingers crossed. It seems a fair question. Funny how there's not a mass outcry demanding an answer.
XL. And whereas it is of the utmost importance to the safety of every State that it should always be in a condition of defence; and it is the duty of every man who enjoys the protection of society to be prepared and willing to defend it; this convention therefore, in the name and by the authority of the good people of this State, doth ordain, determine, and declare that the militia of this State, at all times hereafter, as well in peace as in war, shall be armed and disciplined, and in readiness for service. [More]New York, folks. Founding document.
Dear David,
Just a quick question, I hope you can help educate me.
My wife and I went to a gun show today in Austin, TX. I wasn't planning on buying anything big so I only took $120 with me. Then I found a particular model shotgun I've been looking for but unable to find, price $450. My wife (bless her heart) said we could put it on her credit card.
I told the dealer we wanted to purchase it, so he asked for ID. I gave him my driver's license, and my wife took out her credit card. He said, "Sorry, the person who purchases the gun needs to be the one to fill out the paperwork." Fine, my wife said she'd do it. Dealer then said, "No, I can't sell you the gun now because he [meaning me] already said the gun was for him." I actually didn't say "I" wanted
to purchase it, I said "we"; it just so happens that I handed him my driver's license instead of my wife's. I wouldn't say the dealer was being a complete dick, but he was... dick-ish. We just walked away.
I've purchased other guns in the past using my wife's credit card -- one time at a gun show where she filled out the NICS paperwork, another time at a local store where I did the paperwork but they took her card without saying a word. We've been married for 8 years, live at the same address, have the same last names, shoot together... we were simply dumbfounded. I don't have a single credit card in my name, swore off the damn evil things 5 years ago and haven't needed one since (until today, I guess...). The dealer made no effort to try to find a way to accommodate us. He clearly didn't want our business, so he didn't get it.
I understand that the first line on form 4473 is “I am the buyer of this firearm” and the purchaser must answer honestly yes or no in ink, in his or her own handwriting. Our stated intention was to purchase the shotgun for our home. Everything in our home is community property, as any divorce court would maintain, so if my wife answered "yes" on Line 1 she would have been telling the truth. We were not trying to pull one over on the dealer or circumvent the law.
I can also understand that dealers have to cover themselves from the feds who want to put them out of business for typos and punctuation errors on their FFL forms and all.. but was what we were doing in any way improper or illegal?
In the end, this whole episode left a really bad taste in our mouths, to the point where we've agreed never to buy at a gun show again and support our local dealers instead.
Thanks for any advice or insight you might offer.
Unfortunately, the ATF has become so aggressive on "straw purchasers" that dealers are afraid to do anything that might cause scrutiny. With what Bloomberg did to gun dealers with his Mintz Group "investigative teams" is enough to trigger this type of response. He does not know you and for all he knows, you were antis or undercovers trying to set him up. You could very well encounter this same response in a store.Who has something to add?
Whether or not his fears are legally founded is something I'd have difficulty answering without consulting a knowledgeable attorney, so I can see where he figured the profit he'd make on a $450 sale was not worth taking any risk.
About 100 supporters of a bill tightening Virginia gun control staged a lie-in on the Capitol lawn, but were outnumbered 3-1 yesterday by opponents who wielded signs declaring "Here Lie Disarmed Victims." [More]I recall one of my fellow gun bloggers took my fantasy of Evel Knievel jumping a bike over the lie-in line and Photoshopped a pretty funny picture. I can't find it now--if anybody remembers this, please let us know so I can link to it.
Thanks, Yuri Orlov!
